Te Papa Gallipoli

Walking into a big dark room an enormous sculpture of a injured anzac soldier awkwardly lying on the muddy ground. His crippled hand was covered in blood, the other pointing a gun at the enemy! His face was furious with anger and despair.The sweat on his grimy face looked fresh and the uniform he was wearing appeared to be authentic. I kept forgetting that it was only a sculpture to represent what it was like in the war. They had done it so well that I felt like as if I was there at Gallipoli with the soldier. I felt his pain. By Brooke

Animation at Capital E

After dumping all our bags in big wooden boxes walking into a big dark room take a seat said sam our instructor and instantly everyone raced to seats in the middle of the room he explained to us about what we going to be doing. to start off we all went to a computer and did a maze to practiced using the tablet to draw after that we used animation-ish to animate our names then we had make a ball bounce using the duplicate button and moving it a bit I found it really easy to use animation-ish and thought that it was a very great site to use for animating after everyone drew a ball we all got to make our own animations. I made a video about a spider making a spider web it was really cool. After that we walked around to the playground on the waterfront and had a bread roll and some baking and some fruit then we played on the playground it had a giant slide that everyone loved to go down there where lots of pigeons and Savannah and Elliot loved to chase them and the boys loved to feed them. After lunch we went back to Capital E and got ready to film in the trenches. First of all Kit showed us around the studio then he gave us our scripts and then we started practicing our words and sarah and jacob learnt their jobs then we did a run through then a dress rehearsal and then the final take I found it really easy to read of the autocue and phinece did a good job rolling it  

Wellington War Museum

Warning Please Step Away…….. Silence strikes the room and everyone's eyes turn to a small boy in the corner that was leaning over the railing and got too close to a piece of artwork ... “Elliot!!” exclaimed a little girl beside him.

Our tour guide, Andy, told us lots of interesting facts about World War One and he had loads of great knowledge about it all. He also knew heaps of inspiring stories about curious soldiers and nurses that made a difference during World War One. I was truly inspired by some and I have learnt more today then I think I have ever learnt before in a day. We learnt what they had to eat and what the trenches were like and kind of guns they used and what kind of clothes they wore, and then to top that off, we went outside with Ashley and learnt about the unknown warrior, a soldier that they dug up from an ANZAC graveyard in Gallipoli. First they checked it was a New Zealander by looking at its clothes.After that they brought the soldier back to New Zealand and walked the soldier to its new grave. Lots of people turned up to see the soldier that represents all of the other unknown soldiers that died in the war. After we learnt about the unknown warrior, we went down to a great big memorial made out of wood, which represents the Australian and New Zealand soldiers that fought in World War One. At the end of our tour we laid a wreath at the last post and Daniel read the Ode in Maori very well. After that we went to Monsoon Poon for dinner.        By Brooke